Senior EdTech Cloud Solutions Architect

Benchmark Education Company; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchmark Education Company is seeking a Software Engineering Solutions Architect to design scalable, secure, and highly reliable software solutions for literacy educators and learners. You will lead architecture efforts across customer-facing and backend systems, collaborating with internal teams and partners to translate business needs into robust technical designs.

The role requires managing architecture artifacts, defining non-functional requirements, and guiding development teams from

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of related software/architecture experience.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develops a highly performing Solutions Architecture team to design and guide development of Benchmark Education’s software applications and solutions.
• Defines high-level solution architectures prioritizing scalability, fault tolerance, and security; breaks down to detailed designs.
• Balances competing goals in design, including time, scope and budget constraints.
• Maintains ongoing communication with project teams, verifying that what was designed was built and adjusting solution architecture as appropriate.

Skills

Leadership

Solutions Architecture

Cloud-native architectures

Distributed systems

Security

Stakeholder management

SOA and REST

Java

Web services

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

AWS

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Job description

Benchmark Education Company is seeking a Software Engineering Solutions Architect to design scalable, secure, and highly reliable software solutions for literacy educators and learners. You will lead architecture efforts across customer-facing and backend systems, collaborating with internal teams and partners to translate business needs into robust technical designs.

The role requires managing architecture artifacts, defining non-functional requirements, and guiding development teams from